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cockscomb: see amaranth amaranth [Gr.,=unfading], common name for the Amaranthaceae (also commonly known as the pigweed family), a family of herbs, trees, and vines of warm regions, especially in the Americas and Africa.
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cockscomb, coxcomb

1. an amaranthaceous garden or pot plant, Celosia cristata, with yellow, crimson, or purple feathery plumelike flowers in a broad spike resembling the comb of a cock

2. any similar species of Celosia

3. the comb of a domestic cock

drag

1. A piece of sheet steel with a toothed edge along the long dimension; used to level and scratch plaster to produce a key for the next coat; a comb.

2. A tool consisting of a steel plate having a finely serrated edge; used to dress stone by dragging it back and forth across the surface.

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No references found			I passed on the salad with cockscombs and quails' eggs in favour of what the English menu called "assortment of the finest lards with croutons and garlic" - in fact, not lard but salo, elegant slivers of pork fat of different degrees of cure, some streaked with meat, some wrapped around nubs of raw garlic. The story of borshch by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk For the more adventurous, bigoli-strands of long whole-wheat pasta-are tossed in a robust financière sauce made with cockscombs and tripe. Alto's Jewel-Like Cuisine Soars to Higher Sensual Planes by Moira Hodgson / The New York Observer Celosias are annual flowers known commonly as cockscombs. GARDENING : HIGH-OCTANE CONTRAST IN GAS STATION GARDENS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)			Cocker cocker spaniel Cockerell Cockerell, Charles Robert cockeyed bob cockfight cockfighting cocking cocking lever cocking piece cockle cockle finish cockle stair cockle-shell cupboard Cocklebur cockleshell cockloft cockney cockpit Cockpit Country cockpit karst Cockran, William Bourke Cockrell, Francis Marion cockroach cockscomb Cockscombs cocksfoot cockspur fastener Cocktail cocktail shaker sort Coco Coco Language Coco Plum Coco River Coco/R cocoa Cocoa Butter cocoa nibs cocoa-plum cocodyl oxide Cocol Cocol/R COCOMO Coconino County Coconino National Forest coconsciousness coconut coconut bud rot Coconut Milk Coconut Oil Coconut Palm			Cockroch Cockroch cocks cocks cocks cocks Cocks (surname) cocks a snook cocks a snook cocks ear cocks ear cocks ear cocks eye cocks eye cocks eye cocks up cocks up cocks up Cocks-comb Cocks-comb cocks-of-the-rock cocks-of-the-rock cocks-of-the-rocks cocks-of-the-rocks cockscomb cockscomb cockscomb cockscomb Cockscomb Cervix cockscomb papilloma Cockscombs cocksfoot cocksfoot cocksfoot cocksfoots cocksfoots cocksfoots Cockshead cockshies Cockshoot cockshot Cockshut Cockshut time cockshy Cockson Cockson cockspur Cockspur coral Cockspur coral tree cockspur fastener cockspur hawthorn Cockspur Rum cockspur thistle cockspur thorn cockspur thorns cockspurs cocksucker Cocksuckers Cocksucking cocksure cocksure

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